#4602579 - 06/29/22 04:05 AM
For you wiser more mature members who lived on June 25th, 1982.
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#4602591 - 06/29/22 10:43 AM
Re: For you wiser more mature members who lived on June 25th, 1982.
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Both were box office failures. Why? One too weird and one too scary? . Blade Runner was radically ahead of its time. Most audiences at the time just didn't know how to take it. Don't really know why "The Thing" failed at the box office except that it didn't have any major stars on the cast. Kurt Russell was not yet an A list celeb when this came out.
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#4602834 - 07/03/22 03:50 PM
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I also saw both on release, being not only a sci-fi fan but interested in the practical effects part of it all too. The Thing just went under the radar as an over-the-top horror film. Didn't get any interest outside of horror & sci-fi fans, maybe due partially to the unusual male-only cast. Blade Runner, despised on release by critics. Of course, you can't find any critics now who will admit to being anything other than recognising of its importance Like a lot of other movies, these two became classics and favourites upon the rise of the home video which was occurring at that time.
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#4602879 - 07/04/22 11:17 AM
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... Blade Runner was radically ahead of its time. Most audiences at the time just didn't know how to take it. ... And it still is LA doesn't really look anything like it. Neither do we have attack ships at the Shoulders of Orion, or could watch C-beams near the Tannhauser Gate - even worse, we don't even know yet where the latter would be And worst, no Rachael, Pris or Zhora Salome in sight But according to the film, all that should have happened by 2019
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#4604189 - 07/21/22 08:21 AM
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#4604242 - 07/21/22 06:41 PM
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I contacted Bradbury Building management in mid-2019 to suggest that they host a presentation of Blade Runner in November, 2019, but they said they couldn't get the rights to show it. That definitely qualifies you as a hardcore fan! I never saw Blade Runner during its original theatrical run in 1982 but I did see "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" in the movie theater when it was released in 1992 for the 10th anniversary.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4604253 - 07/21/22 07:50 PM
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The original had Harrison Ford's voice-over, and I think that may have impacted people's opinion. I remember first seeing it, and thought it looked good, but the voice-over made it feel a little gimmicky. I remember calling it "Replicants Don't Wear Plaid," as a reference to a Steve Martin film that came out about the same time (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid) that was modeled after the 40s detective stories.
Then I saw the Director's Cut in an art house theater and thought, "wow, that was a big improvement!" I think it's after that that it took on a cult status. I wonder, though, if I would have fully understood everything happening in the Director's Cut without having seen the original with the narration.
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#4604262 - 07/21/22 10:53 PM
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That indeed is the catch 22 with Deckard’s voice over. The droning gets annoying after a while but a lot of interesting backstory is also provided.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4604263 - 07/22/22 12:33 AM
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I prefer the version with voiceover--gives the film a very novelesque feel.
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